Friday... What an amazing difference God can and will make in our lives.

Psalm 43:3a (NLT), "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me."

Friday... What an amazing difference God can and will make in our lives.

It is so true.

What are you facing today? What questions are going through your mind today? And where do you turn for answers?

Psalm 43:3a shows us an amazing difference that having God in our life can make. It says, "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me." We can be so confused when we strive to live all on our own. In this day and age with so much out there striving to get our attention life can be so confusing. Have you watched YouTube? There is so much on there. So which one is the truth?

What an amazing difference God can and will make in our lives but we must turn to him on a daily and even a moment to moment basis. But it is so awesome to have a relationship with God, the one who created us, the one who is omnipotent, all powerful, who is omniscient, all knowing, who is omnipresent, he is everywhere, the one who is all loving, the one who does not lie, who tells the truth, in fact he is the truth. Yes, he can be trusted. And we can turn to him. So pray, "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me."

I'm reading in Genesis about Abram. In Genesis 12 and verse 1 says, "The Lord had said to Abram, 'Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father, and go to a land that I will show you.'" Now God didn't stop there. Verses 2-3 says, "I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you." And what did he do? Verse 4a says, "So Abram departed as the Lord instructed."

Now he could have played it safe and said, "That doesn't make sense. I've got it made here. There is too much risk." But he didn't. He listened to God. And what an amazing difference God made in Abram's life and all who came after him. The story of Abram who God changed his name to Abraham is a great story. And we also have a story that God wants to tell through us.

Back to Psalm 43:3, which says, "Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live."

Now Abraham's life was a continued relationship with God and we need to live that way too but life isn't always easy.

Psalm 43:2-5 says, "For you are God, my only safe haven. Why have you tossed me aside? Why must I wander around in grief, oppressed by my enemies? Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live. There I will go to the altar of God, to God - the source of all my joy. I will praise you with my harp, O God, my God! Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God! I will praise him again - my Savior and my God!"

And remember that through all we will go through, God can and will make an amazing difference in our live. He really will. Just seek him, read his Word on a daily basis and follow him. "So Abram departed as the Lord instructed." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do

Psalm 8:3-4 (NLT), "When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them?" Friday... Yes, we need them. We really do. No, not the fact that I can go out my front door and look out at night at the marvels of the sky. I can do that and it is amazing and it takes my breath away each time I see it. Yes, that is a fact but the reality of who did that and the wisdom and the faith that I have to believe that and to marvel that the one who did that cares about me makes such a difference in how I live my life. Yes, God really does. That is so wonderful for us to believe. And that is why faith and wisdom are so important. Now whatever belief you have at how that marvel happened must also be believed through faith. And the sad thing to me is that more and more people have been taught that there is no God and therefore he did not have a h...

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together!

Monday... Three ifs and two thens. They go together! They really do. And this is what caught my attention this morning as I was reading Proverbs 2. Verse 1 (NRSVUE) says, "My child, if you accept my words and treasure my commands within you." Verse 3 (NIV), "Indeed i f you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, Verse 4, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, Verse 5, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God." And verses 9-11, " Then you will understand what is right and just and fair - every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you." There will always be some effort we must do, some ifs for the thens to be realized in our lives. So many of us want to understand without the ifs. But the thens are so worth, so very worth the effort. Verses 5-6 in the Ampli...

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless.

Wednesday... Our unless can turn into useless. It really can. I have found that unless I give the correct email of my wife then I can't get what I wanted. I put an extra i in her email and I have been working for 5 days to get it changed. Unless has been useless. The writer of Psalm 94 uses this word and shows how important it is. Verses 17-19 (NLT) says, "Unless the Lord had helped me, I would have soon settled in the silence of the grave. I cried out, 'I'm slipping!' but your unfailing love, O Lord, supported me. When doubts filled my mind, your comfort gave me renewed hope and cheer." "Unless the Lord had helped me." So many people go on and on and on striving to live their life on their own but they keep slipping and doubting and living without hope and cheer. Yes the Lord has such unfailing love for us, he really does but unless we have a relationship with him and we turn to him and ask him for help then the unless turns in to useless because h...

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